These are what Americans would refer to as cinnamon rolls, but this is the authentic Danish form, and it is amazing. They are to die for and are typically served with coffee or tea around Christmas.
| Prep Time: | 1 hr |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 40 mins |
| Servings: | 15 |
| Yield: | 15 rolls |
Ingredients
- 1 cup warm milk (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
- 3 (0.6 ounce) cakes cake yeast
- 6 ½ tablespoons butter, room temperature
- 2 eggs
- ½ teaspoon ground cardamom
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 4 cups all-purpose flour, or as needed
- ⅔ cup butter, softened
- ½ cup white sugar
- 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Pour the warm milk into a mixing bowl and mash in the fresh cake yeast. Mix in 6 1/2 tablespoons of soft butter, eggs, cardamom, 2 tablespoons sugar, salt, and 3 1/2 cups of the flour. Use a wooden spoon to mix the dough. If it’s very sticky, mix in the remaining 1/2 cup of flour. Cover the bowl and let the dough rise for 30 minutes.
- Cream together the 2/3 cup butter and 1/2 cup sugar. Stir in the cinnamon.
- Transfer the dough to a floured surface and knead it until it’s firm, about 3 minutes. Divide the dough in half; roll each half into a rectangle no more than 1/2 inch thick. Spread each rectangle with half the filling.
- Stack one layer of dough and filling on top of the other rectangle of dough, filling-side up. Roll the dough up, starting with the edge closest to you, to form a long log. Cut the log into 1 inch-thick slices.
- Preheat an oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, or grease a baking dish or two cake pans.
- Place the rolls on the prepared baking sheet, spacing them about 3 inches apart. If you like pull-apart rolls, arrange them in a greased baking dish or cake pans, spacing the rolls about 1 inch apart. Place the uneven end pieces on the baking sheet cut-side up for the best presentation. Let the rolls rest 20 minutes before baking.
- Bake the snails in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 10 minutes. Pull-apart rolls will take longer to bake: after 10 minutes, reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and bake the rolls until the sides are fully set, about 10 minutes longer. Cover the baking dish with foil if the rolls begin to get too brown.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 301 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 37 g |
| Cholesterol | 58 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 6 g |
| Saturated Fat | 9 g |
| Sodium | 148 mg |
| Sugars | 9 g |
| Fat | 15 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Very easy to make and fast to complete. Not as heavy as some I make, made a simple icing to dip and caramel sauce on top. Easy to make tastes great and I will make it again thanks. Do it and have fun.
Would love to make this recipe, but I have no idea where I would get fresh yeast. An online search only comes up with fresh yeast in very large quantities.
Amazing ! So delicious! I made 8 and they were gone in less than 2 days!
This recipe was so delicious and simple to make. Like many others I didn’t have cake yeasts so I used regular active dry yeast instead, and these ended up great! Love this recipe! Thanks for sharing.
this recipe is great!!!
This is an excellent dough and recipe.
It’s an overall AMAZING recipe, very seasonal, don’t go soft with the cardamom,
Excellent recipe! Family loved it. I’m very new to baking, and this was plenty easy for me to make.
should have read reviews as I missed the glaze! We poured maple syrup over them!
Liked it, didn’t love it. A dryer cinnamon roll, not sticky and gooey like I imagined a cinnamon roll should be. Added a cream cheese, powdered sugar icing. Will try another cinnamon roll recipe next time. For all the work cinnamon rolls take I want it to be melt in your mouth delicious.
amezing
My baking class made 3 different cinnamon roll recipes today. Danish Cinnamon Snails was the most popular choice with our guests, followed by a basic sweet bread made into cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing, and a slightly over-baked Clone of a Cinnabon. Photo: clockwise from upper left: Clone of a Cinnabon, Danish Cinnamon Snails, Basic Sweet Bread Cinnamon Rolls
My wife made it and they tasted good. The only thing was, I think she baked it too long and the rolls weren’t that full or thick as the ones in the photo.
These turned out amazing! Read several reviews but decided to follow the recipe exactly. The only thing I would change, is to double the butter, cinnamon and sugar mixture. We like more cinnamon flavor, but some may not. Will add pecans and raisins next time and lite icing on top. Soooo good!
These turned out amazing! Read several reviews but decided to follow the recipe exactly. The only thing I would change, is to double the butter, cinnamon and sugar mixture. We like more cinnamon flavor, but some may not. Will add pecans and raisins next time and lite icing on top. Soooo good!
My family loved these and they were not too sweet like many recipes for cinnamon rolls. The cardamom is a really great addition and they were easy to make.
Excellent. I added 1/2 tsp cardamom and 1 tsp vanilla to the filling. My family of 6 all said “Keep this recipe!”.
Went out and got cardamom just for this recipe. I used dry yeast and followed the recipe as written. When making the “snail” I twisted the dough a little just for fun. They turned out very pretty and were delicious.
It was fun to try a new cinnamon roll recipe, which is pretty much what this is. At first, it seemed that the cinnamon was way too strong in the filling, but it was okay. The dough was nice and moist. I ended up adding approximately one additional cup of flour to the dough. Used my Kitchen Aid mixer, which may be part of the reason for that. Baked in a 9×13 pan. (Cut them to make 12 rolls.) Although I could have easily cut them smaller. Yes, I will make these again. Might just use my usual filling for cinnamon rolls next time. May also add slightly more cardamom, as the taste was not noticeable.
are you selling the pictured products or making a recipe. no choice in the kind of yeast. The recipe in itself was so distracting that I would not bother to even try this. make it easy and simple and get the silly pictures out of the products. what other yeast can be used. dont have your kind or even seen it in market. sorry and the cardamon………….come on.
Cinnamon snails doesn’t sound very appetizing to the taste of some people, but everyone, YOU’VE GOT TO TRY THESE CINNAMON ROLLS! I know this isn’t the best review that you’ve ever read, but y’know what they say. PEOPLE THAT SOUND CRAZY ARE ALWAYS THE WISEST. Actually, you probably haven’t heard this saying before, and that’s because I made it up. But back to the point. These are ONE HUGE THUMBS UP! peace off.